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• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  . Learn to cook a new dish. (Like those spam recipes you get in the ... A couple weeks ago someone asked what I did to pass the time while I ... about your future. Then write a song about it. Preferably in the style of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  students coming to MIT to take hour-long-ish classes taught by people in the ... needed to. But do I want to drop things in the first place? Do I really want to spend more time being alone? Maybe the reason I’m doing so much

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  about the minimum number of T stops you’d need to pass in order to go to every stop on the T without leaving. The T is central to the college ... transportation has that going for it too. The first time I visited Boston, in my

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life But make it four

  

  spends their day. My roommates and I wanted to do the same thing but in ... , etc., those just aren’t as represented in this blog. Also, the idea is ... previous work. T: A few friends joined me to lock in at the Breakerspace! My

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  , he looks like a really nice person. His face is the most indicative of ... important stuff. Filing that one away in my list of Things To Refer To When In Situations Requiring Social Interaction - I foresee the situation

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  this program is only open to MIT students, the application pool to these opportunities is much smaller. The program lasts a relatively short amount of time ... maybe have not gotten the chance to get your foot in the door through the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  operate a Tech Dinghy, which is the most basic type of sailboats at MIT. In ... weekend in the White Mountains. The PE course offering at MIT is incredibly ... , sometimes even looking forward to another afternoon on the Charles River. In

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  manager has sidled up to the counter and is standing behind his employee ... professionalism, was the necessary component. Also key, Khan says, is to enjoy the ... model everyone wants to emulate. This is a hit with the audience. On

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  impossible right now. Life is now mostly a choice of how to spend my time the ... joke here] Term is in full swing: pset parties are everywhere, the ... , and I haven't been to 6.0001 lecture in two weeks. Actually, most of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  , there is the Freedom Trail, which I've wanted to wlak since frehsman year ... exhibit but I did go into the gift shop to see if I wanted to buy anything ... 500 words first, which was the goal, but I was also trying so hard to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  . We went to PetCo by the CambridgeSide Galleria. (The Galleria is the ... night in November, the fish all died and my mom had to get rid of them ... what they were getting ready for) Now I've had pets in the past, but

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  ones you're interested in, and go to the ones you're feeling at the time. that's about it! there is SO much to do on campus—in addition to all the ... the hazy memories of my CPW to guide me. this is totally credible and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  dynamic city in the world, I began to wonder if the direction my life is ... packet to a TA and I waltz out of the Z-Center, the sun bathing me in its ... economics, and am ready to embark on the next adventure: an internship in New

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  in Boston is MIT. The roads here are so much more chaotic, and there ... ’t you the least bit terrified?” “Is it even legal for you to drive here ... in English. “Yeah, but what about the states that don’t?” To my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  . No, only with a pass. Please, this is the only thing I want to do in ... night to buy me A Night at the Opera (ah, the dark ages before iTunes). I ... Lausanne. I was hoping to somehow run into Jessie randomly in the train

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  committment to diversity. In fact, as early as 1917, the Boston Daily Globe ... 't have a cohesive campus until 1916, much to the lamentation of some ... ) was described in the yearbooks in the following way: "This Course is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  taking courses in their majors. I went to the student talks that we have at ... . Regardless of your opinion of him, he is at least definitely one of the best in ... twenty in my high school. I am not used to being at the top nor do I think

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  . This is in response to the idea of eternal recurrence, put forward by ... is a fear, the fear of coming back to something I once loved, and ... things we'd do together, once he'd moved in. We'd go to the square dances

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  excitement. Actually, there's been too much excitement for me to find the time ... it. CPW I spent most of CPW punting psets in order to gorge myself on ... generally not the variety of nerd that seems to stick in society's collective

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  already know most of the choreo. In addition to Chamak, I'm also co ... finally read the last book in the Eragon series! Yeah...I haven't really ... . At the beginning of January, I flew back to Boston for a month

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013